75g cichlid advice please

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Aquadi

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Hello. I have a 75gallon tank with some loaches and plecs in it currently. I was looking to get some SA or CA cichlids to go in the tank as focal points. What would be some good recommendations for this size of a tank given my current stocking numbers. The tank is over filtered 10x and I do biweekly water changes.

I have GT's, Severums, Acara's, JD's, Firemouths, Salvini's available to me a the LFS I frequent, and those are just the ones I can think of off the top my head. They can and do special order though so that is also an option.


I look forward to your suggestions!
 
it depends on how many loaches/plecs you already have in the 75. if you were to go with a gt, jd, salvini, i'd only add one fish. but i'm betting you can get away with multiples or a pair of severums/acara/firemouths. i have had 75gs myself, and the one running has two sevs and one gt in it.

you might want to read up on crenicichla, geophagus, and gymnogeophagus. you might like them.
 
I think any one of those would work fine. You could add one one and them some other dithers like giant danios and have an active tank with a show piece cichlid.
 
After seeing some of the GT's here I'd love to go with a G and a few other slightly smaller cichlids. The are 8 loaches should max out around 5" and there are 4 plecs that wont go past 5". I'd like to get some colorful guys if possible, and the GT's really seemed to have that. If I could do a few other good looking SA/CA cichlids that'd be primo.
 
jbnebres;2802064; said:
you might want to read up on crenicichla, geophagus, and gymnogeophagus. you might like them.
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Geo's need open floor space don't they? I can't accomodate that currently. And the Gymno's need to be kept in cool tanks for a period?
 
Would 2 GT's and a FM be ok, or possible 1 GT, 1 FM, and something else in the 6" range?
 
Go for a pair of electric blue jd's....they would look great for show fish.

As mentioned before, danios would look great also. Red jewels would look good also but tend to be aggressive. :)
 
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